#con

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it. ↗

— Walter Scott

#centuries #contemporary #diary #document #dull

I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of an illusion. ↗

— William Scott

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On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards a greater gamble and higher rewards. I also find that drawing can generate ideas more rapidly than painting. ↗

— William Scott

#charcoal #drawing #drawn #economy #find

Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead. ↗

— Brent Scowcroft

#dead #especially #europeans #experienced #familiar

My point was that removing Saddam should not have been our highest priority. Fighting terrorism should have been our number one concern, followed by the Palestinian peace process. ↗

— Brent Scowcroft

#concern #fighting #followed #highest #highest priority

So far the changes in the president in his second term have been mainly of a rhetorical nature. ↗

— Brent Scowcroft

#changes #far #his #mainly #nature

Dick Clark is an American icon. I am honored that he has entrusted me with such a role in this national tradition. ↗

— Ryan Seacrest

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I was scheduled to give my first official press conference that morning anyway, 'cause I was chairman of the Governors Energy Council and I was making a press conference with regard to energy policy. ↗

— William Scranton

#cause #chairman #conference #council #energy

Obviously, I'm not looking in the core of the reactor, but I am looking at what, at that time, was considered the source of the trouble, which was the water and where it was. ↗

— William Scranton

#considered #core #i #i am #looking

They're calling their Washington sources at the NRC or in Congress and they're not hesitating to give their opinion, but their opinion, frankly, in those early days was not very well informed. ↗

— William Scranton

#congress #days #early #frankly #give